Reference
The Codex
The shared language the rest of the site leans on. When an article says Azorius, we mean this. When a Limited Take calls something evasion, this is what it does. Start with the guilds; come back as the vocabulary grows.
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Azorius
Control, law
Azorius is the white-blue guild of control and law, the color pair that wins by deciding which spells and creatures get to matter.Read about Azorius →
The Ten Guilds
Keywords
- Deathtouch
- Combat tax, lethal touch
- Double strike
- Two hits, one creature
- First strike
- Combat damage first, then everyone else
- Flying
- Evasion keyword, air combat
- Haste
- Attack the turn it lands
- Hexproof
- Untouchable by targeted removal
- Lifelink
- Damage becomes life
- Menace
- Evasion against narrow boards
- Reach
- Ground creatures that block fliers
- Trample
- Evasion against chump blockers
- Vigilance
- Attack without tapping
- Ward
- Protective tax, ability word